Shine stand



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SHINE STAND Filed April 19. 1926 INVENTOR.

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Patented Feb. 15, 1927.

UNITED STATES CLARENCE L. STOGLIN, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

SHINE STAND.

Application filed April 19, 1926. Serial No. 102,945.

This invention relates to shining stands particularly adapted for use in shining parlors or the like where it is desired to give the best of service to customers by making the equipment as safe and as neat as pos' sible.

One of the primary objects of the present invention is the contemplation of a shining stand which includes the feature of a foot rest which may be dropped or closed to a position entirely out of the way when the customer takes or leaves the seat to have his shoes or boots shined.

Another object of the instant invention is to provide a shine stand having a clear unobstructed step and platform when the foot rests thereof are in the closed position and when the auxiliary step thereof is dropped to the open position.

Still another object of my invention is the provision of new and novel means for operating the foot rests thereof to the open and closed position, which operating means may be housed beneath the platform and operated from in front of the same with ease.

Many minor objects of the invention will appear during the course of the detailed specification referring to the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a shine stand made in accordance with the present invention, with the foot rests in the lowered or inoperative position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical central section of the shine stand taken on line III-III of Fig. 1.

Fig. dis a cross section of the stand taken along line IVIV of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary section taken on line VV of Fig. l, and,

Fig. 6 is a detailed section through one of the wheel hubs showing the flanges integral with the shaft.

Similar reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, and the numeral 7 designates a platform, made of any suitable material and having the top thereof stepped to provide a higher and a lower portion as shown in Fig. 2. A seat in the form of a bench or chair 8 is mounted on the higher portion of the platform 7, and the central part of the raised portion should be cut back at the front to provide a recess 9 as shown in Fig. 0.

The support part 10 of foot rests 12 is a part of the floor of the lower front portion of the platform 7, and is pivoted near the forward end by pins 13 or the like which permit the foot rests 12 to be swung to the open or closed position. \Vhen in the closed position, foot rests 12, of which there are two, are disposed parallel to and very close to the vertical wall connecting the high and low portion of platform 7. These foot rests 12 are at the free end of the support part 10, which is bifurcated and extends on each side of a projecting part 14, which is a part of the floor or platform 7.

When foot rests 12 are in the closed or inoperative position, the customer is permitted to mount the platform 7 and seat 8 through the use of an auxiliary step 15, pivoted to the front wall of platform 7 as at 16, and supported at its outermost end by a leg plate 17, which is hinged to step 15 in a manner shown at 18 to permit step 15 and leg plate 17 to lie flatly together when raised to enter opening 19 formed in the front wall of the platform. Stops 2O preclude the auxiliary step from falling too far back when in the closed position, and hold the same in the same plane as the front wall of the platform when not in use.

After a customer has ascended to the seat 8, the operator closes auxiliary step 15 and proceeds to draw foot rests 10 to the verti cal position, shown in dotted lines of Figs. 3 and 4 where the same may be conveniently engaged by the customers feet.

Novel and simple operating means has been provided to open and close the foot rests from the operators position in front of the platform.

One form of embodiment of the mechanism is here shown to be a. pair of flexible cables 21 and 22 which, when pulled, open and close, respectively, the footrests. Each cable 21 and 22 extends through suitable openings in the front wall of the platform 7 and around sheave wheels 23, mounted on a transverse shaft 24 supported in any suitable manner beneath the platform.

The inner endof cable. 21. engages a bracket 25 at a point in front of pivotal point 13, as clearly shown in Fig. 5. hen handle 26 is pulled, cable 21, is pulled around sheave wheel 23 (Fig. 5), and a downward and outward pull is imparted to bracket 25 which opens or raises foot rest 10 to the operative position. When closed,

bracket; 25' has a portion 27 which engages the under sideof the platform floor to keep the footrests and the supporting part from p y 4 a i To bring the foot rests 12 to the closed position from the open position, it isbut necessary to pull out on handle 28. This draws the footrest from the positioi'i shown in dotted lines to that shown in full lines of Fig. 31 Bracket 29 must be eng'g'e'd by cable 22 at a point to the rear er pivotal point 1 3, and a pin or the like 30 projects fr m this bracket to engage the under side of the floor to limit the o enin movement of iiootrests 12; As shown in Fig. 6, shcave Wheels 2-3 are loosely mounted for rotation upon a shaft 24 betweefr guide flanges $51, and the shaft does not turn when the foot rest sare beingraised or lowered The operation and many novel ream-es of the" device havejbeen made clear throughout the specification; and it is understood that the cables described herein may be actuated in any suitable manner.

hat 1? claim and desire to secure by Let-' t'ers Patent is;

1. A: shoe shining s'tand of the kind de scribed comprising a platform; a seat mounted thereon, the seat-supporting portion of said platform being higher than the part infront of said seat, a portion of the lower floor of said plat-form beinghingedt'y mounted, foot rests 011* said" hingedly mounted portion and means for raising and lowering, said-j portion extending through the front wan of said platform; v

2'. 1& shoe shining stand of the kind de-" scribed comprising" a platform, a seat mounted thereon; foot rests including support therefor adapted to form a"; patien e-i? the platform floorin'front of saids'eativhen inthe inoperative position and means for raising and lowering said foot rest-s opera: tively attached to said support and project ing through the new: Wall oisai'dplatform.

3. Ashoe' shining standfof the" kind de; scribed comprising a pla'tt'oiiin, a seat mounted thereon, pivotally mounted root re'sts'including a" support therefor adapted toforma' portion of theplatforinflfioor in front of said seat when in the dbsed and in; operative" position and; manually operable means for raising and lowering said foot rests extending through the front wall' of said platform.

4'. A shoe shining stand of the kindde j scribed comprising.a"platform having a seat" mou'n-ted thereorn pivotally mounted foot rests including asupport therefor adaptedto form a portion'oftli'e platform floor in front of said seat" when in the closed position and meansfor raising and lowering said foot rests from in" front of said platform comprising a pair of flexible cable connections, each passing around a sheave Wheel supported beneath; said platform from an opening through the front Wall of said platforn'i to brackets formed integrally with said foot rests adjacent its pivotal point.

5: A shoe" sh'i n i ng stand of the kind. described comprising a platform having a seat mounted thereon,- a pivotall'jv mounted foot rest including a support therefor adapted to ram a portion of the platform fiber in front of said sea-when in are cl ose'd position and means lorraising and lowering said foot rest lTlOlIl in front of said plat'l'orm compile n'ig apanolflexible cable connections each passing" around a slie'ave Wheel supported beneath theplja't'lorin after entering through an opening in the front Wall thereof to" brackets formed integrally with said foot rest adJaC'ent its pivotal point, the connection of said flexible cable adapted to raise said foot] rest to the operative: position beattached to bracket in front of said pivotal point when the foot rest is closed and the connection or the flexible cable adapted to lower said foot rest being at tached to its bracket to the rear of said pivotal point when the foot rest is closed, whereby when the respective cables are pulled through the openings in said" front wall, said foot rest is pull-ed to the open or closed position.

6. In el shining stand of the character described including. a platform having a step theifei'ntci forina law and a high portion, a

part of the floor of said lower port-ion being liing'e'dly mounted at one end whereby it may be disposed in a ve'itical ositrolt'foot rests secured tothe other' en-d of saidmovable portion, said foot" rests being" snpportedf parallel and in juxtaposition to the Vertical wall formed by said step when in'the closed todimit the closinnmovement of safiidfoot rest and support the same in the clo'sechposi tion;

In testimony whereof Thereuntoaflixmy signature. H V v CEARENCE L; STGGLIN-L 

